Birds of Prey has reportedly landed its final main actress, as Ella Jay Basco is in negotiations to play Cassandra Cain, aka, Batgirl.
As reported by Variety, the young actress has only had a handful of roles in Grey’s Anatomy, Veep and Happyland. The plot of Birds of Prey will reportedly see Cain protected by Harley Quinn, Huntress and Black Canary after she comes across a diamond that belongs to Gotham City kingpin Black Mask.
Basco in Grey’s Anatomy (2013).
It’s hard not to approach the twelfth and final chapter of Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ Mister Miracle without a fair amount of trepidation and sadness. Not just because this issue marks the end of what has quite possible been DC’s most consistently great comic over the past year-ish, but also because we’re finally faced with the ultimate mystery of the series.
Is this story real? Has this massive war between light and dark gods actually been happening? Is Scott Free hallucinating some sort of alternate life as he bleeds out after failing to escape death? Is this all some fractured reality generated by the Anti-Life Equation? At some point it’s difficult to picture a truly satisfying answer to these questions. And so it’s only fitting that King and Gerads’ answer boils down to “It doesn’t really matter.”
There aren’t many games that make me feel as cool as Warframe does when I’m bullet-jumping through the air at breakneck speeds. While this free-to-play co-op shooter has wildly outgrown its original “space ninja” reputation since it first came out in 2013 – adding open-world areas, deep story missions, and even a hoverboard with a Tony Hawk-style scoring system – it’s the way it makes everything you do feel fast, powerful, and just plain awesome that keeps me coming back to its almost-endless well of loot.
Warframe is a dense game – a tangled ball of yarn made up of almost six years of updates, additions, system reworks, and content drops. Its different bits and pieces overlap and twist together in a way that can make it overwhelming to even think about trying to untangle it all, but it also means that there’s an almost inconceivable amount of deep and often extremely entertaining content to discover once you do.
This Thursday, IGN Plays Live’s Streamer Showdown is back on, and this time it’s personal! Sort of.
On November 15, starting at 4pm PT/7pm ET, IGN’s Sydnee Goodman will be joined by Counter Logic Gaming’s top Fortnite pros, KP5ive and Chrispy, as they go head to head in a challenge so bananas only Sydnee could dream it up.
As always, you can watch right here on the front page of IGN.com, or you can find us on YouTube, Twitch, and Mixer.
Sports entertainment giant WWE has four major events every single year, one of which is Survivor Series. These PPVs take place during each season, and many WWE fans consider these events to be the highlight shows of the year. The next major PPV coming to the WWE Network is none other than Survivor Series, and the show traditionally has two teams competing against each other in elimination tag matches. Usually, teams of five eliminate each other, one by one, until only one wrestler is left standing.
Since Raw and Smackdown are currently shows where the superstars don’t crossover to fight each other, Survivor Series has become one of the few events of the year where wrestlers from the Monday night programming take on the Tuesday night show. In addition to these elimination matches, WWE has the champions of both Raw and Smackdown face each other, which is the only time of the year you can see this event.
This year’s event is coming to the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California on Sunday, November 18. Survivor Series kicks off on PPV and on the WWE Network at 7 PM ET / 4 PM PT, and while a Kickoff Show has not been announced yet, we’re speculating there will be a two-hour long preshow, much like the other “Big Four” WWE PPVs.
This is the 32nd annual Survivor Series from WWE, which dates back to 1987. Since the focus of the event are the Elimination Tag Matches, we’re taking a look through the history of WWE to look at every single traditional Survivor Series match in the history of WWE. On each slide, the winners are presented first for each match, unless noted otherwise. So check out every single Survivor Series Elimination Tag match from this iconic PPV.
Note: Neither 1998 or 2002 had a Survivor Series match, so they don’t appear on this list.
In the world of video games, it’s not uncommon to see a large amount of career shifting. Game designers turn into business executives, video editors become award-winning actors, and sometimes journalists become game developers themselves.
That’s exactly what happened to Joe Fielder, who worked at GameSpot as an editor throughout the 90’s. On this month’s episode of IGN Unfiltered, Fielder spoke with host Ryan McCaffrey on how the transition from journalist to developer panned out in a successful career helping to design games like BioShock Infinite and the new Underworld Ascendant.
Mother Nature, clearly unhappy at being shown up for a while, has turned up in Just Cause to make our hulking human weaponry look like BB guns loaded with rabbit turds.
Yes, the weather is quite possibly the most dangerous thing in Just Cause 4, with Avalanche introducing four extreme variants to the open world. In our latest IGN First drop, we introduce you to every type, where you’ll find them, and how exactly they’ll lead to Rico’s untimely death.
Joe Skrebels is IGN’s UK News Editor, and he’s now frightened of thundersnow after looking it up. Follow him on Twitter.
In no small feat, Ralph Breaks the Internet is a sweet, funny and worthy follow-up to the Oscar-nominated 2012 Wreck-It Ralph. The sequel finds room to grow on the original film’s premise by exploring not only a larger world beyond video games but also new and more complicated dimensions to the core friendship at the heart of these movies.
Gaming remains a factor this time around — especially when Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope’s (Sarah Silverman) online journey leads them into the absurdly dangerous and over-the-top GTA-style game Slaughter Race — and the quest to save Vanellope’s “home” Sugar Rush from extinction is the plot’s main objective. But the Internet, as the movie’s title makes obvious, is the main subject of this keen parody, and this shifts the focus from the past (nostalgia for classic games) to the present. Everything from viral videos to the dark web to online shopping gets ribbed here.
Pikachu is the mascot for the Pokemon franchise, so there’s little wonder why the electric mouse is featured on one version of the upcoming Pokemon: Let’s Go games for Nintendo Switch. The other version features Eevee, a Pokemon that has never been used as a selling point for an entire game, but that’s no reason to think Eevee doesn’t belong on the cover. Eevee has been a fan-favorite since its inception and has gone on to become one of the most beloved Pokemon in the series.
Pokemon: Let’s Go is modeled after 1998’s Pokémon Yellow Version for GameBoy, where the player starts off with a Pikachu while the player’s rival gets an Eevee. That’s one reason Pokemon: Let’s Go game director Junichi Masuda said he chose Eevee for this starring role – there’s a precedent for these two going head-to-head early on in the franchise.
The internet is a lot of things to many different people. It can be a way to keep up with friends, a professional workspace, a battleground, or a powerful tool for harassment. For Vanellope, the glitchy star of the arcade kart racer Sugar Rush, it represents unlimited possibilities, the potential for evolution and change–an escape from monotony. That same monotony is what keeps Wreck-it Ralph, the lovable bad guy of the game Fix-it Felix, on the path of goodness. And for him, the internet is a frightening frontier that draws his most villainous characteristics to the forefront.
In that respect, Ralph Breaks the Internet, the sequel to 2011’s Wreck-it Ralph, rings true: The internet brings out the worst in some people. But that reality doesn’t make for a particularly fun or lighthearted movie. Ralph Breaks the Internet is almost as funny as the original, and it’s especially nice to catch up again with these characters and see what they’re up to these days. But it’s also kind of a drag.
Ralph Breaks the Internet follows Ralph (John C. Reilly) and Vanellope (Sarah Silverman) as they journey to the online world to buy a new part they hope will save Vanellope’s game. You’re mostly fine if you’ve never seen the original or it’s been a while; returning characters like Felix (Jack McBrayer) and Calhoun (Jane Lynch) are sidelined and play unimportant roles, and all you really need to know is that this is basically Toy Story for video game characters. When the arcade closes for the night, the game characters go “off the clock,” traveling around through power cords, meeting for root beers in the bar from arcade classic Tapper, and generally leading their own lives.
The movie does a good job establishing where Ralph and Vanellope are at in their lives: Ralph is happy to go to “work” every day as the villain of the game Fix-it Felix Jr., while Vanellope is growing bored of racing the same tracks over and over. Thus, you get the different ways they view the internet–and the movie’s main conflict.
From a practical standpoint, the new setting is rich with both overt and subtle comedy. The internet is a teeming, endless metropolis in Wreck-it Ralph 2, and Disney Animation filled each frame with inside jokes, memes, and references to online culture. At the same time, the movie often reaches for low-hanging e-fruit, lazily plucking lame dad jokes, especially at Ralph’s expense, like when he’s trying to come up with relevant trends and the new character Yesss (Taraji P. Henson) reprimands him for suggesting something that was hot “15 seconds ago.”
The whole world accessible at your fingertips? Ralph just doesn’t get it. He’s essentially your parents, which is fine, since plenty of moms and dads will see Ralph Breaks the Internet with their kids. If Reddit memes were the main source of comedy, half the audience would walk out scratching their heads. That said, there are some jokes that just don’t land in the slightest, like an uncomfortable tribute to the mole gag from Austin Powers in which Ralph keeps slipping up and mentioning a character’s physical deformity out loud. There’s absolutely nothing funny about it, and there are similar examples throughout the movie.
Yesss is an algorithm, a digital being who runs the internet’s largest trend site, BuzzTube. As a concept, she’s fairly on the nose–she’s so hyper-aware of every new trend that the other characters can barely keep up. That’s what the plot demands, and Henson seems to have fun with the role. The other main new face, Shank (Gal Gadot), fits well in Ralph’s universe: She’s essentially this movie’s Calhoun, albeit with a softer edge, despite hailing from the hyper-realistic online racing game Slaughter Race. The relationship she and Vanellope form is genuinely touching.
The part that feels most out of place is also the one that’s received the most attention leading up to Ralph 2’s release: the Disney Princesses scene that sends Vanellope on a surprisingly self-deprecating trip through Disney history. It’s undeniably a well-executed, hilarious scene, brimming with impressive details like the fact that almost all the original voice actresses return. Sure, it’s all a bit contrived, but it’s also OK to simply enjoy Disney being so self-aware. Whether Cinderella would ever really smash her glass slipper into a shank and brandish it at a little girl is beside the point.
Ralph Breaks the Internet does manage to confront the internet’s ugly side, which feels like the elephant in the room for any viewers who spend a significant amount of time online. We’re all aware of the trolls, harassment, propaganda, and lies that assault every corner of the internet, and Ralph learns a hard lesson when he encounters the “comments room” after his videos go viral. Yesss’s assertion that you just need to ignore the trolls isn’t as wise as the movie seems to think it is–we should know by now that doesn’t actually work–but at least it’s something.
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More troubling is the turn Ralph takes as a character. He’s always been a bad guy; he spent most of the first movie trying to earn a “medal” just to prove that he wasn’t, while ultimately accepting that being a bad guy doesn’t mean he has to be a bad guy. If you enjoyed that character development, brace yourself for a backslide, as Ralph easily slips back into his old, selfish, villainous ways in this movie. What is the message here? That some people really are just villains? His arc seems designed as a warning to all the online bad guys of the real world, but the final act trades any subtlety for a huge action set piece, and the movie’s central conflict takes a very strange turn. Ultimately, Ralph goes a little too bad, and it’s resolved a little too easily, for the movie to feel satisfying.
Ralph Breaks the Internet is a funny, detailed look inside the online world that viewers of all ages should enjoy. Its take on internet culture is just not very nuanced, which doesn’t come as a total surprise. After all, there’s no pleasing everyone.
| The Good | The Bad |
|---|---|
| Internet humor for all ages | Ralph’s negative character development |
| Nice to catch up with these characters | Misguided platitudes like “just ignore the trolls” |
| Self-aware Disney meta humor | Unsatisfying climax and resolution |
| Cleverly brings the internet to life | Some jokes don’t land |